Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-02
SUFFERING CURED.
How Stammering Is Corrected in
Chicago School.
A Professor Who Shows How to Make q
Hating Speech Kun as Smooth
as n Top-His Method
of Education.

ndDit OF Stutter1ngg III INFUSED to m-rn-
mock a man. When he d-d-died took
his place." The question was asked by the
professor of a vocal institute on Dearborn
street, and the answer by young man
who had just announced his intention of
taking series of lessons. A reporter of
the Chicago Herald was present, and sit
ting around the room were several intelli-
gent-looking young men, the most of
whom could speak as fiuently as any one.
All declared that they had until recently
been most inveterate Sufferers or STAN.
merers. The doctors question suggested
an interesting train of thought. The re-
porter put the same question to each of
the patients in turn. ''When l was about
six years of age" said number one, al
commenced to stutter a little. Then we
moved to a strange place, aud went to
school. l was very diffident, and the
teacher attempted to force me to read and
recite. The scholars laughed at me, be-
came more diffident, and soon the habit
was fixed on me-"
81 am his brother" said number two.
81 learned it of him.
"When I was young" said number
three, 81 used to play all the time with
another boy who was horrible stutterer,
and learned it of him. Whenever l was
out with the boys and didn't think of it
would sometimes find myself talking all
right, but as soon as l thought about il
would commence again. My little brother
afterward learned it from me-"
Number four said he learned the habit
from another boy but would have con-
quered il had not his teacher forced him
to read and recte, at which times he be-
came so nervous as TO lose all control of
hoA
the age of six or seven.
THAT accords with the most of mv ex.
perience," said the doctor; "these impedi-
ments of speech are for the most part of a
nervous nature Lack of power, the tele.
graphic system of the body out of order.
imperfect connection between the brain
and muscles of speech. All this trouble
sometimes arises from sudden fright. One
patient OF mine, young lady, was sli ght-
ly seized with stammering at the time OF
the great fire. Afterward she saw a COW
catch little child on its horns. She was
paralized with fright-unable to speak or
move. The animal tossed the child into
the air. She rushed TO the spot, and the
child was fatally injured. After that the
lady was a bad case of confirmed stam-
mering.r
Zone of the worst cases l ever had was
that of young man. When he was a bov
six or seven years of age his father threat
ened, If he committed certain offense, to
throw him into the well. The boy COM
mitted the offense and his father held him
for moment over the well head down.
ward. From that time on the boy could
not talk plainly. Many children acquire
this malady in infancy, just as they are
beginning to learn to talk. Their parents
nr L.
bottom OF the feet, thinking the loud
laughter thus excited amusing. The pa
papa which the little ones cry out at such
times is the first inception of the habit of
suffering.
The professor" referred TO whose
words are quoted above is an expert, and
1t is very interesting to watch him while
actually training n class. Although he
has special methods and exercises. the
basis of his system seems to be to inspire
confidence. The professor is a iolly fell
low, OF fine physique and great personal
megnet etism, with the voice and laugh of n
hon, II lion can be imagined as laughing.
In training his class he commences. in the
most natural way in the world, to talk of
all sorts OF, interesting subjects, and soon
an infection of good feeling seizes
all present. He roars out his
words with such force and fiuency from
the depths of his immense lungs that talk.
ing seems the easiest in the world. Occa-
sionally remark is addressed to some
member of the class in a conversational
sort OF way, and before they know it every
body seems TO be able to talk. Occasion.
ally he goes the rounds of the class with
various vocal exercises for the develop-
ment OF certain muscles. Here are few
-
OF the exercises. Some ministers and
actors would do well to practice them:
Amos Ames, the amiahle asronaut. aid
ed in an aerial enterprise at the age of
eighty eight"
"Obtain all opportunities of obliteratine
obnoxious ostentations."
Henry Hingman has hung his harm
on the hook where he hitherto hung his
hopes" What nut for Cockney to
crack.
Il like white vinegar with veal very
WE'LL"
"She sells sea shells. Shall he sell sea
shelsi"
"Quixote Quixite quizzed a oueerish
quldoox. Where is the queerish quidbox
Quixote Quixite quizzeds''
When the pupils can recite these sen.
tences and a hundred or so similar ones.
huently, they are graduated.
A clear cut, elegant and fluent utterance
is one OF the greatest graces with which a
person can be gifted. 1t tells almost the
whole story of ones birth, early training
and associations. The different kinds of
faulty elocution are known as suffering.
stammering, hesitancy, lisping, exhausted
breath, nasal sound and improper articu.
lation, Many people fall under so COM
plete list as this, who in some instances
could improve their utterance by a little
private practice and attention to the mat
ter. A stutterer has the most difficulty i'm
uttering lingual sounds, such as words be.
ginning with L, while the stammerer
stumbles over the labial sounds, of which
words beginning with b are an example.
Both habits are accompanied with facial
distortion, and sometimes with a writhinr
or twitching Of the whole body. That
these are nervous affections is shown by
the devices resorted to to get over some
difficult letter or sound, as swapping the
finger or stamping the foot. 81 shut MN.
my list tight" said u stammerer, "and the
electricity runs up my arm and lets tho
sound c-c-cOme out" AT the letter C. he
1rove his finger nails clear into the palm
of his hands. The professor says there are
between seven and eight hundred stam-
merers and Sufferers in Chicago.
----==--=
Died y Little Too Late.
A New Haven family which racartI,,